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Yemeni security officials say an American who worked as an English teacher has been taken from his house in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg plans to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the 71st United Nations General Assembly in New York to discuss measures to avoid accidental confrontations between the alliance and Russian armed forces.

The U.S. general expected to take over the military's nuclear forces had a sobering assessment of North Korea's capabilities, telling Senate lawmakers on Tuesday that the rogue nation "will" build up the capabilities to hit the United States.

Sweden's government plans to introduce tax breaks to make it more affordable to repair washers, dryers and other home appliances as a way to reduce waste and protect the environment.

The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck in the sparsely populated Izu Islands region south-southeast of Japan's main island of Honshu.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is shutting down his international businesses to focus on charity work.

The al-Shabab extremist group is warning Somalia's traditional elders against taking part in upcoming elections, saying it will deal with them "with an iron hand." The 135 elders later this month will begin the selection of 275 members of parliament who would vote in a new president.

A seven-month-old polar bear, found by villagers in far eastern Russia, has been brought to the Moscow Zoo with the Defense Ministry's help.

Thousands of demonstrators have marched at the European Union headquarters to protest trans-Atlantic trade talks with the United States and a planned deal with Canada, claiming they would hurt labor and consumer rights while undermining environmental protection.

Serbia has warned Bosnia it would come to the defense of Bosnian Serbs if they were attacked, amid rising tensions in the Balkans over next weekend's referendum.

The leader of the Yemen's Houthi rebels has called for donations after the government ordered the central bank relocated from the rebel-held capital to the southern port city of Aden.

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Iranian media says the Revolutionary Guard has detained two Sunni militants near the border with Pakistan, where clashes erupted earlier this month.

Finnish authorities say they have arrested a 21-year-old woman suspected of plotting a school massacre.

The UN humanitarian aid agency suspended all convoys in Syria on Tuesday following an overnight attack on aid trucks that the International Committee of the Red Cross said killed about 20 civilians, mostly truck drivers and Red Crescent workers.

Brazil's state-run oil company is further slashing its investment plans by one fourth less than a year after similar cuts as oil prices fall and a corruption probe widens.

Officials say Nigeria is suing several major oil companies for $12.7 billion of oil allegedly exported illegally to the United States between 2011 and 2014.

South Africa's deputy president says he visited Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu in a hospital and found the retired archbishop to be "jovial as usual" while being treated for an infection.

The wife of the Afghan-born man suspected in the series of bomb blasts in New York and New Jersey was arrested in the United Arab Emirates on Monday, US officials revealed, as investigators worked to determine how much she may have known about her husband's actions.

A pilot of a Saudi Arabian Airlines plane mistakenly pressed a hijack warning button as it approached Manila's airport on Tuesday, causing airport officials to mobilize commando forces and isolate the jet after it landed, Philippine officials said.